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February 21, 2019
2-for-1 Accelerator
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Researchers at the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics in Garching have built the first-ever laser-driven particle accelerator that can generate pairs of electron beams with different energies.
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November 12, 2018
Expert for Blood Samples
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At the beginning of October Dr. Frank Fleischmann joined the Broadband Infrared Diagnostics (BIRD) …
October 31, 2018
Congratulations 2018 Physics Nobel Prize Winners
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The LAP team warmly congratulates Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland on winning the …
August 20, 2018
An Important Master’s Thesis
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Junior researchers at LMU Munich are also actively involved in the Lasers4Life project. One of them …
July 12, 2018
Important visitor from Hungary
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An Important visitor made an appearance at the Center for Advanced Laser Applications and the …
July 3, 2018
Summer school students
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The Laboratory of Attosecond Physics (LAP) at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the …
June 22, 2018
IMPRS-APS Application Round 2018
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IMPRS-APS offers young researchers a unique combination of education and training opportunities in …
June 14, 2018
Blood donation for cancer research
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A blood donation campaign will be organized on the 14th and 15th of June, 2018 within the framework …
June 8, 2018
A new member of the Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg
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Dr. Hanieh Fattahi was selected as the member of the Elisabeth-Schiemann-Kolleg of the Max Planck …
May 17, 2018
Two invited talks at the SPIE Conference
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Our group presented two invited talks at the recent SPIE Conference »Optical Systems Design«, …
April 23, 2018
Molecules brilliantly illuminated
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Molecules are the building blocks of life. Like all other organisms, we are made of them. They …
April 17, 2018
Laser-based X-ray imaging picks up speed
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Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics …
April 12, 2018
The future of ultrafast solid-state physics
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Physicists can now control light in both time and space with hitherto unimagined precision. This is …
April 9, 2018
We congratulate Marcus Seidel with the successful PhD defense
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The PhD title is "A new generation of high-power, waveform controlled, few-cycle light sources".
March 26, 2018
High-reflectance broadband infrared dispersive mirrors
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For the first time, broadband infrared dispersive mirrors exhibiting reflectance exceeding 99.6% and …
March 26, 2018
Front cover: Infrared lasers
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In article number 1700273, Jinwei Zhang and co‐workers investigate two different gain materials — …
March 19, 2018
A new editor of Optics Letters
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Dr. Tatiana Amotchkina has reached a strong international reputation in the research field of thin …
March 7, 2018
Dr. Moritz Ueffing
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Moritz Ueffing has defended his doctoral thesis: Direct Amplification of Femtosecond Pulses.
February 23, 2018
Student's visit of CALA labs
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Students from LMU today visited our lab and got a short impression of state-of-the-art high-power …
February 23, 2018
A keen sense for molecules
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Infrared light has a keen sense for molecules. With the help of this light, researchers are able to …
January 31, 2018
Playing billiards with a laser beam
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In their experiments, the group fired a powerful laser pulse at a micrometer-sized plastic sphere, …
December 20, 2017
Xmas Celebration 2017
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Laser goggles on and ready for attosecond and femtosecond challenges in 2018. Attosecond team (ATTO) …
October 22, 2017
Wine gums, balloons and a tour of CALA
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Open Day this year drew a crowd of approximately 11,000 to the Research Campus in Garching, and for …
August 17, 2017
Cross-polarized, multi-octave supercontinuum generation
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We celebrated the recently published work of Haochuan, in a Chinese restaurant. The work discusses …
July 31, 2017
Ayman Alismail's work is featured in a 10-min video
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An Yb:YAG, thin-disk amplifier developed by Ayman Alismail in the group of Dr. Hanieh Fattahi has …
July 25, 2017
We thank our volunteers
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We have successfully completed the collection of samples for our small longitudinal study in …
July 25, 2017
Joint clinical studies with three LMU clinics have taken off!
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We develop a new infrared laser molecular fingerprinting to detect breast cancer, lung cancer and …
June 7, 2017
Meet us at CLEO Europe 2017 in Munich!
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Meet us at CLEO Europe 2017 in Munich! We have 5 oral contributions. Among those are one invited …
May 4, 2017
SNSF fellowship for Liudmila Voronina!
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We congratulate Liudmila (Lucy) Voronina on having her Early Postdoc. Mobilityfellowship funded by …
May 3, 2017
We introduce Sigrid Auweter!
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Dr. Sigrid Auweter (Siggi) is heading a small team located at the LMU Clinic, coordinating and …
April 28, 2017
Our new team member: Inci
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Dr. Incinur Zellhuber (Inci), studied Optics and Photonics at the Karlsruhe School of Optics under …
April 22, 2017
Science March Munich
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We have participated in the »Science March Munich«. More information can be found here.
April 1, 2017
Welcome Lucy!
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We welcome Liudmila Voronina (Lucy), our new member that has just joined us. Lucy came from the …
March 24, 2017
Jonathan Brons has successfully defended his PhD
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The PhD title is "
High-power femtosecond laser-oscillators for applications in high-field physics".
March 1, 2017
Dr. Hanieh Fattahi on Minerva Fast Track Programme
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Dr. Hanieh Fattahi (Photo: Thorsten Naeser), a young physicist at the Laboratory for Attosecond …
September 27, 2016
Explosive preparation leads to proton radiation
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Light, when strongly concentrated, develops an enormous power. Using this concentrated energy, a …
September 20, 2016
Awarded multilayer coatings design
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Dr. Michael Trubetskov won four First Prizes in Design Contest Awards (Optical Interference Coatings …
September 19, 2016
Starting with a table
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The time has come: interior work at the new Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA) has begun! …
September 16, 2016
Workshop: »Future of Ultrashort Pulses II«
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Workshop »Future of ultrashort laser pulses II« in Hotel Zámek Štiřín, Kamenice, Czech Republic …
June 9, 2016
Tingye Li Innovation Prize awarded to Marcus Seidel
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Marcus Seidel, who joined the group of Prof. Ferenc Krausz in 2012, has been selected as the winner …
May 31, 2016
Attosecond camera for nanostructures
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The interaction between light and matter is of key importance in nature, the most prominent example …
May 23, 2016
A switch for light wave electronics
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Light waves might be able to drive future transistors. The electromagnetic waves of light oscillate …
February 4, 2016
Sluggish electrons caught in action
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In the race to establish ever-faster electronics, light could play an important role. For instance, …
January 19, 2016
A sense for infrared light
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Those who want to explore the microcosm need exact control over laser light. Only with its help is …
September 21, 2015
Laser-based molecular fingerprinting
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Scientists often need to detect and measure levels of specific substances in a sea of irrelevant …
September 18, 2015
Workshop: »Future of Ultrashort Pulses«
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Workshop at Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics Please find all information on the workshop at …
September 18, 2015
Workshop on the future of ultrafast pulses
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At the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, »92 scientists gathered at a workshop« to discuss the …
August 10, 2015
Focused laser power boosts ion acceleration
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The interaction of high-intensity laser light with solid targets could someday serve as the basis of …
June 17, 2015
A novel source of X-rays for imaging purposes
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For over a century, medical imaging has made use of
X-rays
produced in a specialized type of vacuum …
May 5, 2015
A new gateway to the microcosmos
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With the aid of extremely short and highly intense pulses of laser light, scientists have made great …
March 25, 2015
Neues Licht für die Medizin
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Es ist eine kühne Zukunftsvision, die
Ferenc Krausz
umreisst, nicht weniger als eine Revolution der …
March 25, 2015
Laser pulses for cancer detection
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A team of physicists, molecular biologists, and medical researchers set out to use laser light to …
January 1, 2015
Dr. Hanieh Fattahi
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Hanieh Fattahi has defended her doctoral thesis: __LINKTO(publication:LMU_FattahiHanieh_phd_2014, …
October 31, 2014
A New Centre for Ultrashort Laser Pulses
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The Centre for Advanced Laser Applications (CALA), a new facility devoted to laser-based research, …
September 30, 2014
Ivan Angelov and team to take home trophy for 2014 Laser Damage Symposium Award
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Ivan Angelov and Coworkers at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics have won Laser Damage’s …
July 24, 2014
The future of ultrashort laser pulses
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Next-generation approaches to the production of ultrashort flashes of laser
light – the
so-called …
April 2, 2014
Das Spiel mit anderen Welten
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Garching - Licht ist hell, weiß und hat allenfalls mal einen Gelbton? Das stimmt nicht, wie die …
July 5, 2013
Multilayer coatings design award for Michael Trubetskov
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At this year’s Optical Interference Coatings (OIC) Topical Meeting organized by the Optical Society …
June 3, 2013
MAP on BRalphaCampus
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Does light have the potential to become the key technology of the 21th century? There is a good …
June 3, 2013
Cool electron acceleration
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Electrons with a velocity close to the speed of light are hard to control. Using them as a tool for …
April 23, 2013
Light bursts out of a flying mirror
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A dense sheet of electrons accelerated to close to the speed of light can act as a tuneable mirror …
April 15, 2013
Award-winning photo
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With his photo »New Mirror Technique for Attosecond Flashes« Thorsten Naeser wins the first prize in …
October 29, 2012
The Laboratory for Extreme Photonics (LEX) officially starts operation
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The Laboratory for Extreme Photonics (LEX) has officially begun operations. The President of Ludwig- …
February 28, 2012
LEX Photonics
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The newly built LEX Photonics centre at Coulombwall gets its inner equipment. A team of external …
August 15, 2010
Vladimir Pervak wins Second Prize of the OIC-Design Contest 2010
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Vladimir Pervak has won the second prize in the Design Contest of the Optical Interference Coating ( …
December 9, 2009
Tumors under fire
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Munich physicists develop new method to generate highly energetic carbon beams using intense laser …
September 27, 2009
Miniature X-ray source using wiggling electrons
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The potential of laser technology seems inexhaustible. Fresh proof has now been presented by an …
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